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...artwork, Pest Control, refuses to approve street pieces because the artist prefers the work to remain in situ and "building owners tend to become irate when their doors go missing because of a stencil," the group's website states. Acoris Andipa, owner and director of the Andipa Gallery in London, which has sold Banksy's work, says that any "intelligent buyer" would not entertain the possibility of purchasing one of Banksy's street pieces. "It comes with too many question marks and a clear message from the artist that these works are not to be sold," he says...
...This isn't the first time a council has taken a pass on Banksy. In Oct. 2007, the London council of Tower Hamlets ordered the removal of his work. A year earlier, the city council of Bristol, reportedly Banksy's hometown, had considered removing one of his murals, but in the end allowed it to remain, citing an outpouring of public support on an online forum. (Watch TIME's video "Graffiti Meets the Digital...
...Westminster council first sought to remove Banksy's painting 'One nation under CCTV' on Newman street in central London on the grounds it was an unlicensed commercial. (See pictures of Banksy...
...actual (read: made-up) cases from real (read: make-believe) interviews to help you prepare to wow that hot interviewer from Bain. Case 1 You are advising a major American insurance company headquartered in New York City. This company’s credit rating was recently downgraded because its London unit sold credit default swaps on collaterized debt obligations that lost much of their value when sub-prime mortgages went south. In order to prevent the company’s collapse, the Federal Reserve crated an $85 billion credit line in exchange for an equity stake in the company. Currently...
...reached a peak in late 2003, when news leaked of government violence against political prisoners led to mass protests on the streets of the Maldives' capital, Male. "We had been telling the population that they deserved better," says Ahmed Moosa, a prominent opposition figure who said he fled to London after receiving death threats from elements within Gayoom's government. "Now we were able to expose the regime for the crimes it had committed." International pressure and defections from his own cadres slowly forced Gayoom to change tack and speak of democratic reform. Ibrahim Hussein Zaki served for ten years...